Re: [PATCH] block2mtd: throttle writes by callingbalance_dirty_pages_ratelimited.

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Thu Dec 13 2012 - 06:28:03 EST


On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 19:32 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> If you create a block2mtd device that is larger than main memory,
> and write to all of it, then lots of pages will be dirtied but
> they will never be flushed out as nothing calls any variant of
> balance_dirty_pages.
>
> It would be nice to call set_page_dirty_balance(), but that isn't exported,
> so just call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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